Tonga is 60% Mormon??????

So ìt seems mormons are notorious for targeting Indigenous communities. The only place they have really failed, despite their very best efforts, is here in Australia. While there are a few Aboriginal mormons, (like, maybe a few hundred at most) we generally reject mormon teaching once we find out about baptising dead people. There is a very strong taboo in most Aboriginal mobs, including mine, when it comes to saying the names of dead people. That taboo might be restricted to just your own mob, including your own ancestors, any and all Australian Aboriginal people, or any dead people no matter what race they are. I have no spiritual beliefs, I'm pretty much an atheist, but I find it jarring and uncomfortable to see photos of deceased Indigenous Australians, and I won't tell you the name of my Aboriginal grandmother.

I have an off topic question why is the church so obsessesed with genealogy and how do I know if my deceased love ones have been baptized?

Like 2 mins in and all I can think is Kalani and Asuelu. 😂

I will say that the placement program is not unique to the LDS. Programs like this are attractive to Asian families (non-religious programs). I used to do night tutoring in college and all the students were from Asian nations and they lived with “home stay” families during the school year… some were as young as 8!

It’s actually something that surprised me… the LDS church doesn’t have their own schools in the USA. I’m not Mormon, so I don’t know why, but it seems like a religion so keen on financial entanglement or financial obligation would see schools as a potential benefit to them.

I had good memories from a middle school trip of going to the PCC but now I'm just sad that I can't go back :-|. And that the memories are kind of tainted. Man i hate cults.

WTH this lady looks like Cael Sanderson 😂😂😂 Mormons aren't an ethnicity why do y'all look the same? You could literally be his little sister.

I believe the Mormon church claims Polynesia is a lot tribe of Israel

Calling kava a narcotic is like calling warm milk a gateway drug.

I’ve lived in SLC for a while and I find this history so fascinating and heartbreaking. I was not told about most of this at all but not too surprised

The church is like:
Fake boobs- 👍🏼👌🏼👏🏼😍
Fake butt- 😍😍😍😍
Lip injections- 👌🏼👏🏼❤️😍
Cultural body art with deep meaning and ancestral history- 🤬😡🤯 YOU'RE BODY IS A TEMPLE DON'T DISFIGURE IT

From what I've seen (as a white person with little in person knowledge), Polynesian cultures are so beautiful and cool. I think people would be more interested if the real cultures were shown.

This speaks to me as an African-American. My ancestors were torn from their country and brought he to be slaves and then once freed the system has continued to be racist, sexist, and made harder for us ti get even footing. It’s sad because it makes you feel like an outsider in your own country.

I went in '86. I had no idea it was Mormon. I do remember while interesting it was sterile

I enjoyed this video so, so much!

The Book of .... Conjecture

“Johnny Lingo” with everyone Polynesian bent over is such a horrible racial stereotype 😡

The Mormon football games thing had me rolling XD

No idea where you got that from but we are definitely not over 60% Mormon here. Yuck.

Alyssa, your videos are brilliant, thank you! Now every time I see Mormon missionaries in Brazil, I can’t help but wonder which of the weird doctrines they actually follow here. You’ve totally rewired my brain!
love your thoughtful and engaging content.

Wild, I had no idea. Another crime of colonization!

You are so knowledgeable. I learned so much from this video. Thanks, Alyssa!
I like to watch 90 Day Fiance and just thought about whether Asuelu, the man from Samoa, would be Mormon. And yes, he seems to be. And Kalaani from Utah (I missed that hint) left the religion.

Alyssa, i have begun getting LDS ads on your videos 😂 Smiley blonde girls in front of stacks of mormon books saying a missionary will deliver one personally. I'm 💀.

I’m from New Zealand and wore a school uniform. No makeup for us either - was seen as a distraction and not the point of school. We were there to learn and be women empowered by our minds, not by our appearances.

The books from Mormon are the biggest works of fan fiction ever.

I was stationed in Hawaii and was suprised to learn about the Mormon's history there and other islands.

I have a Mormon friend that actually got his mission to Tonga, what a crazy history

Any comments on Losepa Utah ?
Where The lds hawaiians who helped built the slc temple were burried

Try Slim of God.🤨

Who cares

Tonga vs Utah? That's a no brainer! I'd stay!!

Serving coffee there reminds me of the crosses I saw for sale in the Scientology gift shop. They said it was part of creating a “welcoming environment” for all faiths. I see it as deception.

imposing modest dress on girls is one of the sneakiest misogynies IMO. Just, psst, did you know your body is wrong and you should be ashamed?

I agree with you how the mormon religion completely contradicts indigenous cultures and in truth seeks to destroy those cultures. But as someone raised catholic, thats all religions. In the Phillipines they celebrate how Lapolapo fought and killed Magellan, but their population is mostly Catholic. Religion is the problem.

I recently started being visited by missionaries. Please help me. I just found your videos. I told them I didn't think it was for me. But while talking to them I truly started feeling such a calming presence. Next I was given a baptism date. I told them I was going to have to pray about it first. And I have a heavy heart now.

I remember back in college we went to an LDS church to do genealogy research for a project.

The one member helping us told us about where Polynesians came from according to LDS....I just rolled my eyes 🙄

The Mormons are sure they are descendants of Israelis and also insist that everyone practice “Mormon culture and history” but don’t insist everyone speak Hebrew or even the made up language the golden tabernacle is in. Hmm.

I've been reading the famous book 1984 and the main character's job is to literally edit old newspapers and textbooks to make sure that whatever the leaders are saying right now has always been right.

i was stunned to hear you state in a previous video that the PCC is ran by the Mormon church…it honestly made me sick. i wish we’d never gone there

The fact that you have to be Mormon but not have to have any qualifications is absolutely WILD????

April this year a giant new temple was dedicated towering over the slums of south Auckland, Polynesian capital of the world, also home to the highest population of indigenous Māori.

But are you a christian ✝️? Have you received Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior? Receive Him today, the God of grace, the God of law, the God of the resurrection, the God of the Trinity. God bless you ✝️🙏⛪️.

This was so informative and a great reflection on the impacts of any kind of religious colonization.

Sal Tlay Ka Siti: the flies won't bite your eyeballs, and human life has worth!

Mormons learn just enough of a culture (language, dances) to convert them, and then discourage anything that doesn’t jive with the church. It’s sad. It’s like they’re infiltrating. It’s not accepting, it’s taking.

Tonga and samoa also think there the heart of the pacific

If they do discourage tatoos, not many listen. I saw lots of tatoos and even heard one guy explain the significance of them.

The makeup thing doesnt surprise me a whole lot I feel like even public schools till recently woukd restrict makeup and even still its kinda frowned upon (by adults) for young girls to wear makeup